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2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

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Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

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Post by palata »

Arbortheus wrote: post #58
Kukumber wrote: post #24

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Bugs? sounds like they misconfigured their OS Linux is not a commercial product that'll suit everyone all at once, you need to learn about its components, linux is just a kernel If your argumentation is "various linux bugs", then you should stick to Windows, it has nice "various windows bugs", or macos, it has nice "various macos bugs" There must be a reason why linux empowers the world from micro controllers to data…

In principle I would love to use Linux, as the developer experience isn’t great on Windows, and I would rather not be tied into expensive Apple computers. However, I don’t want to learn about components of my operating system, that is below my pay grade. I’m not trying to spread FUD, I’m speaking firsthand on some of the experiences my colleagues have had with their brand new $3000 business Thinkpads running all mann…

Sounds like you would not actually love to use Linux, then :-)

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Post by blep_ »

palata wrote: post #277
ajb wrote: post #229

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Came to say that too. Zoom nags you about their app every single time, but it works in a browser.

I like Jitsi, because it is open source and it is not Zoom.

That's... not really useful for those of us who need to talk to other people using Zoom.

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Post by krick »

imwillofficial wrote: post #256
krick wrote: post #69

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That's moral choice I guess: you were simply making mistakes for the last 20 years, an the OP is blatantly lying. Also, you were simply giving people hope, and OP is actively sabotaging the development, by trying to make false impression that this garbage is already working fine. Which, as every actual Linux user knows, just isn't the case. Obviously, that's Microsoft PR department post. Using praise as a weapon. I'v…

It was a joke my friend. Merry Christmas

That was too, in case you didn't figure… Kind of.

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Post by jasoneckert »

While I agree with many of the points here questioning the validity of the title, I must say that 2022 definitely feels to me like the year of Linux on the "developer desktop" - it was the first year where nearly all of the people in my developer circles embraced Linux and where all major laptop manufacturers offered a developer-focused Linux laptop (HP Linux One, Lenovo Thinkpad Linux Edition, Dell XPS Developer Edition, System76, and so on.).

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Post by flatiron »

coffeebeqn wrote: post #246
inktype wrote: post #230

The article is disappointingly short, but at least for me, the title is true; at long last, 2022 was finally the Year of the Linux Desktop. May the YotLD meme live on in spirit. I finally switched my desktop and laptops 100% to Linux. Some games don't run - fine - plenty of other games do. Ableton runs well in Wine, but Bitwig is native, and yabridge runs VSTs. MuseScore was saved. KDE is pleasant and productive. Ble…

I’m running the Steam Deck and it is an absolute generational shift in gaming on Linux. The majority of games now run totally without problems.

Same. The only ones that seem to have problems are the ones that explicitly don’t support Linux via anti cheat or weird launchers or DRM. If it’s just a normal game, it runs fine.

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Post by bombela »

leppr wrote: post #273
bombela wrote: post #264

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I wish I could have the graphical stack and mouse handling of MS Windows in general. With the trackpad precision and battery life of Mac on laptop. The fact the mouse scroll wheel doesn't even work well on Linux is just shameful.

What doesn't work well about mouse scroll wheel on Linux? Its behavior is very similar to MacOS, in that it sends scroll events even to unfocused windows.

Sending events in unfocused window is quite nice I would say.

The issue is the scroll speed and amount is inconsistent between applications.

And now with some applications trying to implement smooth scrolling it's even worse.

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Post by cardanome »

palata wrote: post #276
cardanome wrote: post #251

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I will offer a third perspective: Linux has a really horrible user experience on the Desktop but it is the least shit option of the mainstream operating systems. For me the choice is simple because a non-free operating would not be acceptable. And no, I am hardcore ideological about it, I use a Linux Kernel with binary blobs and all but the point is having system that serves me and me alone. Telemetry, advertisement,…

Isn't Linux Mint basically just a different UI on Ubuntu? I mean there are also alternatives not based on Ubuntu (Arch, Debian, Fedora, Alpine, Void, ...)

Yes. But also no snap, telemetry or other Ubuntu shitfuckery. It only just takes the good stuff from Ubuntu.

Being based on Ubuntu is pretty great because is is allows access to the huge package ecosystem. Lot's of commercial software is (sadly) only targeting Ubuntu so you can just use the .deb without problems.

Stock Debian is also a great choice (Ubuntu uses Debian as a base) but a bit harder to set up for beginners. (There is also a Debian based Linux Mint variant.)

There are many good Distributions but strictly for beginner "I don't want to tinker" suggestions, the Debian-based ones are a safe choice, again because of the package ecosystem. (Though something like OpenSuse is also very friendly).

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Post by JadeNB »

tokai wrote: post #236
uneekname wrote: post #111

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Not sure about performance on an X220, but I've loved Fedora workstation edition. The default Gnome setup is pretty user-friendly in my opinion, a there's a decent amount of support to be found online.

I have used fedora on my x220 since I bought it new. Still runs perfectly.

HN would throttle my posting if I replied to everyone, so I'll just pick this comment, which speaks most directly to my experience, and thank everyone while thanking you. Do you remember if there were any tweaks you needed at the beginning, especially to get all the hardware working?
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